Yet another game ruined by Raiders.
The whole "Just run away and shoot at them" is utter crap, and has pissed me off because what on earth do you think the rest of my army does? Somehow not die while the bloody super-men run around?
I had 22 men, granted mostly serfs but with a scattering of higher ranks, a half decent hero, and 6 mercenary crossbowmen. I met a group of 8 (Not 18, or 80, bloody 8!) Raiders in the Irish Sea. No raiders dead (despite two point-blank headshots to the raider captain from my nomad bow) and I end up with 11 guys left, 3 of them wounded. I proceed to flee, but hey, they're raiders! And as we all know there were definitely sprinting bands of heavily armoured knights who attack everything they see who were able to run faster than an Olympic sprinter all day in the year 1200 and so they caught me again and killed almost my entire warband.
You can't pay them off, you can't outrun them, you can't fight them. What is the point of them? What are they there to add to the game other than to **** people off at the start.
Yes, I am angry. This could be a good mod, but every game I've started has been utterly ruined by magical "raiders" appearing out of no where and massacring my entire warband while barely taking a casualty.
"If you can get a horse and a lance"
Again, what does the rest of my army do while I'm prancing around dodging the bazillion throwing weapons trying to lance them? They just have to die, which then ruins the game because my entire force has been killed & I'm left by myself, and it only takes a couple of lucky hits for my horse to die then I don't stand a chance.
Also, what happens when you meet them at sea? You don't stand a chance there either because they just steam roll you because they are magical bandits who can afford better armour than the King of England!
Cheers for committing mod-suicide
*edit*
So I can actually play your mod have used Morgh's thingymabob to remove their silly amount of armour. As for the Raider Armour, the Raider Captain is equipped with it.